Port's main imports are furniture, auto parts, footwear-apparel, electronics. LA port adjoins the separate Port Long Beach. Port Los Angeles is a large seaport complex covering a land area of 30,35 km2 (11,72 mi2) with around 69 km (43 mi) long waterfront. The distance between LA and San Pedro is the same (via highway I-110-N). The distance between LA and Long Beach is 24 mi/40 km (via highway I-710). Note: CruiseMapper's Los Angeles cruise ship schedule includes/combines also the schedules of Port Los Angeles (locode USLAX), Port Long Beach (USLGB) as well as San Pedro. Due to the Coronavirus crisis, LA's cruising operations were paused between March 15, 2020, and September 25, 2021. Each visiting LA cruise liner generates USD 1+ million in economic activities. Homeporting in LA was introduced by P&O Princess Cruises in 1965. LA's cruise port schedule includes roundtrips to Mexico ( Cabo, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, Ensenada), Hawaiian and California Coastal ports, as well as one-ways to Vancouver Canada (on repositioning itineraries to Alaska) and ports in Florida (on Panama Canal transition itineraries). Popular itineraries visit the Hawaiian islands, the Mexican Riviera, some even Alaska. As cruise port, LA handles ~1000 ship calls annually. The City of Los Angeles is in the Southern Californian basin (Pacific Ocean) and is most famous for being the world's entertainment industry center. LA is the USA's second-largest city - after NYC New York (population over 8,6 million, density ~27000 per mi2 / 10400 km2). Top and bottom photos taken by the author during a tour of the Port of Long Beach.Los Angeles cruise port serves in California's largest city (population around 4 million, density ~8100 per mi2 / ~3100 km2). They also import and export bulk goods, odd-sized items, vehicles (via “roll-on, roll-off” ships), oil, and other non-containerized items.Īll maps are from the USGS’s National Map project and are in the public domain. 3) This post is a follow-up to my review of “The Box,” and the two ports handle more than just shipping containers.
It would probably not be hard to find official statistics on port acreage and then create some equivalent size boxes (I’ll put that off until another day). On the other hand, these are shipping ports, so a significant amount of open waterways are necessary to bring ships in and out. 2) There is a lot of water within the boundary that I drew, which perhaps shouldn’t be included in port area. Even in that case, each port is quite large, covering almost one-eighth of San Francisco or Manhattan below Central Park. 1) The ports are two separate entities that just happen to be next to one another, so perhaps a fairer look would consider about one-half of the outlined area. Nonetheless, it’s a good enough estimate for this simple exercise. The word rough should be emphasized, since I don’t know the exact boundaries of the ports and it’s possible that there are other entities that own some of the land. Geological Service’s National Map project. The first map below shows my rough outline of the ports’ boundaries on a map from the U. One way to check would be to draw an outline around the ports on a map, then drop that outline onto a map of a well-known place. But how would the ports’ size compare to well-known geographies? The port complexes seemed endless: crane after crane, vast expanses of stacked containers, roads going every which way, scores of trucks. I have driven around the port areas a few times (once even getting lost on the peninsula west of downtown Long Beach and almost getting stuck in a lengthy line of trucks waiting to get into the port). A thirty foot container, therefore, would be 1.5 TEU.) (TEU is the standard benchmark in the container port world, and stands for twenty-foot equivalent unit, which represents a container that is twenty-feet long. These are the two largest ports in the United States, handling approximately 6.8 million TEU at Long Beach and 8.3 million TEU at Los Angeles in 2015. To illustrate the size of major modern ports, let’s take a look at the Ports of LA and Long Beach. In my review of The Box, I noted that containerization required ports to cover much more ground to support cranes, container storage, roadways, and so forth. Ships and Cranes at the Port of Long Beach
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